l68 THE LOST HISTORY OF PEAK FOREST. 



learn whether his fault was for his humanity to the younger boys, 

 or for beheading poor Bate and Roger ; anyway, it was a sad end 

 of a happy hunting day. It would appear rather that he was 

 fined for what was not his fault, for the record adds that he was 

 fined lo marks for the escape. Matthew de Sepley was fined 60 

 marks, as the chief criminal ; Matthew de Storches, only 20s. 



A party of clerical poachers fell into trouble upon a visit to the 

 Abbot of Leicester at his house at Glossop, Roger de Wesham, 

 Bishop of Chester, Magister Thomas de Ferneley, William, vicar 

 of Glossop, Archdeacon Adam de Stamford, Magister Rich, de 

 Stamford, John Clericus, and Roger Mariscal, were all found 

 guilty of taking a doe {Bissani). John Clericus was a monk 

 unknown, and, therefore, he got off, but the Archbishop was 

 attached to compel the appearance of the Bishop before the 

 Justices. 



The Knight Jurors of the county of Derby presented Wm. 

 Bardolf (a great Baron) for taking two stags, but he proved that 

 he had the grant of the king, and so the Knight Jurors were 

 themselves in miser icordia. 



Matthew de Sepeley, sen., Robert le Brun, and Ad. de Pen- 

 kestone (who was then dead) took one stag, two bissa, and one 

 fawn {setonem), and were imprisoned by Wm. de Ferrars, Earl 

 of Derby, then bailiff of Peak (then dead), who took certain 

 monies to liberate them, and this, adds the record " he could 

 not do without the special mandate of the king or of the Justices of 

 the Forest, therefore his heirs must answer for it. The word 

 seton, here translated fawn, is a curious one, and difficult to trace.* 



John Saville, of the county of York, with his brothers William 

 and Waiter, took a stag in Langedale, which they carried to the 

 house of John. He came before the Justices and produced the 

 King's pardon for all forest trespasses dated the 7th February 35th 

 year of the king's reign, therefore John and his brothers were 

 quit of that transgression, but the Knight Jurors were not blamed 

 or fined, since the very fact of pardon was an admission of guilt. 



* It would seem to be a corruption of Secta — offspring.— {>(f^ Ducange). 



